Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Purchase Exposition in 1904, recently presented to Professor F. W. Putnam '62, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has been given by him to the Museum. The collection illustrates the life of the primitive tribes of the islands as well as the so-called Filipinos, who are really a mixed foreign stock, probably of Malay and Chinese origin. The better part of the collection illustrates the former, the Negrito, Igorot and Bagoboo tribes, each being represented by a few specimens, while from the Moros there is a fairly large collection. The articles are utensils of daily life, such as wicker baskets...
...response to an appeal from President Roosevelt in the public press and to direct appeals from Harvard men and other foreign residents in Japan, the Harvard Mission has undertaken to raise by general subscription in the University a substantial sum of money toward the fund for relieving the famine in the north of Japan...
French literature is true to life in the extreme formality of the social life as depicted in comedy. To the foreign reader this seems mere stage conventionality; but in reality it reflects the formality which permeates all French society...
...will, I believe, not only be a source of great pleasure to both parties, but will also do them real good; and in the case of our students it will also give them a rare--if not the only opportunity of expressing their thought in earnest in a foreign tongue which they are now studying for seven or eight years...
...last lecture of the series of which the general subject is "The Attitude of Christ toward foreign Races and Religions" will be given this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. The special topic will be "Christian Missions and the Modern World...